5 Steps To Motivating Your Employees

Motivation isn’t clear cut and nor will it ever be. So how are you
supposed to motivate every staff member on your pay roll? You pay
them for a job, and you want that job done quickly and efficiently.
Follow these 4 steps to help your motivation techniques become
more inspiring and boost your productivity!

1. Get To Know Your Staff

Motivation is about exciting your team. So how are you meant to

excite someone when you don’t know what excites them? Getting to
know your staff is a very simple thing but it can be extremely powerful
for you. Get to know what influences them and use it to your
advantage. You’ll start to notice in your one-on-one conversations a
change in body language and attentiveness when you use certain
phrases. Chances are, you've hit the nail on the head and that’s what’s
going to work.
2. The Bigger Picture

When you, as a business owner, think about your business, what

excites you? Is it:

(a) What the businesses has become and is doing for you and the
community? Or

(b) The day-to-day tedious tasks that you find yourself doing
constantly?

Your staff are thinking the same thing! The less and less they become
motivated, the more they feel insignificant to the bigger picture of
company progress (a) and feel like they are irrelevant and are doing
work (b) all day and feeling ignored. They lose focus on what they are
doing and why they are doing it. Don’t forget to remind them how
they fit into the business, that what they are doing actually has an
impact and compliment and thank them for their continued support
in your company.

3. Process

In theatre, they say there are no small roles, just small actors. Connect
this way of thinking into your business and reinforce in your
employees that no step is insignificant and that you consider every,
however seemingly small, piece of work as crucial to your company
success. Make them familiar with the required chain of events and
communicate the impact of a delay. Unmotivated staff are more
prone to procrastination. Highlighting the consequences that could
arise if what they are doing becomes delayed can help change the
way they think about what they are doing. Their knowledge is your
company's power.
4. Treat Your Staff Right

If your treat your staff right and fairly, the more likely they are to
listen to you and what you have to say, making your motivational
techniques more persuasive. This will pay off at crucial times in your
company's progress. Stop messing them around with confusing
communications or constantly updating and changing their roster. Try
using a scheduling software that will take care of all the hassle for
you. RosterElf, for example, will take care of all your rostering and
communication needs. Give them what they want and what they need
to make it an enjoyable workplace for all. If they enjoy where they
work, then they won’t rebel against management and will be more
loyal to you in the long run.

5. Acknowledgment

Acknowledging and rewarding the efforts of your staff is the perfect

way to lay groundwork for future motivation. They’ll have prior
knowledge of their past success and recognition and won’t become
sour and aggravated next time something more is asked of them. The
recognition will motivate them to keep doing what they are doing, at
the same level and productivity that they are doing it at. The
management team of any business needs to be a constant source of
motivation for staff members. Without it, your business will become
less and less productive and that ‘bigger picture’ will recede further
and further out of your reach.

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